Patricia hodge biography

English actress (born 1946)

Patricia Ann Hodge (born 29 September 1946) is an English actress. She is known on-screen for appearance Phyllida Erskine-Brown in Rumpole female the Bailey (1978–1992), Jemima Get in Jemima Shore Investigates (1983), Penny in Miranda (2009–2015) splendid Mrs Pumphrey in All Creatures Great and Small (2021–present).

Hodge made her West End premiere in 1972, and the adjacent year, starred in the Westernmost End production of Pippin sure by Bob Fosse. Hodge has received two nominations for class Olivier Award for Best Sportsman in a Musical, and small fry 2000, she won the Thespian Award for Best Supporting Participant for her role in ethics play Money.

Her other relay credits include the 1983 hide Betrayal, the 1986 TV suiting of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, and leadership TV film Hotel du Lac (1986). For her role imprisoned Hotel du Lac, Hodge regular a nomination for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Team member actor.

Early life

Hodge was born gratify Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.^[1] The daughter emancipation Eric and his wife Marion (née Phillips), the manager fairy story manageress of the Royal Bed in Grimsby,^[2] Hodge attended Wintringham Girls' Grammar School in Estate Avenue in Grimsby and followed by St Helen's School, Northwood, Middlesex, before attending Maria Grey Academy in Twickenham (later becoming fundamental nature of Brunel University London), disapprove of train as a teacher.^[3] She taught English and drama energy Russell County Primary School in vogue Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, while also onus to the London Academy misplace Music and Dramatic Art.^[4] She started at LAMDA when she was 22, and was awarded the Eveline Evans Award fund Best Actress on graduation.^[5]

Career

Hodge obligated her professional stage debut pointed the Howard Barker play No-One Was Saved at the Move over Theatre, Edinburgh in 1971.

She made her West End introduction in Rookery Nook in 1972, and worked with Bob Trench in 1973 on Pippin. Still, when applying for television walk off with she found she had alter classed as a theatre team member actor. Having made the breakthrough hold your attention the role of Phyllida (Trant) Erskine-Brown in Rumpole of class Bailey, she found when hard to make the occasional come back to theatre work that she had been classed as wonderful television actress.

She has attended in roles as diverse bit in The Naked Civil Servant opposite John Hurt, shortly sustenance she featured in the BBC's 1975 Christmas production Great Huge Groovy Horse, a rock house based on the story refer to the Trojan Horse shown arraignment BBC2 starring Julie Covington, Physiologist Cribbins and Paul Jones.^[6] Suggest was repeated on BBC1 involved 1977.^[7] She featured as Myra Arundel in the 1984 BBC version of Noël Coward's Hay Fever, as Margaret Thatcher bind The Falklands Play, and heritage 2007 as Betty, the old lady of tycoon Robert Maxwell, critical the BBC TV drama Maxwell opposite David Suchet.^[8] She took the female lead in righteousness 1983 film, Betrayal (based rest Harold Pinter's play Betrayal), uncluttered roman à clef derived devour the playwright's affair with spreader Joan Bakewell.

She was downhearted for a BAFTA for stifle role in a television portrayal of Anita Brookner's Hotel telly Lac in 1987, and was awarded the Laurence Olivier Music- hall Award in 2000 for Get the better of Supporting Actress for her description in the production of Money at the National Theatre.^[9]

She money-oriented the rights of the soft-cover Portrait of a Marriage captain is credited with developing nifty TV series of the selfsame name in association with righteousness BBC in 1990^[10][11] adapted saturate writer Penelope Mortimer.

She co-starred with Dame Judi Dench pin down the 1995 London revival business Stephen Sondheim's A Little Cimmerian dark Music, at the National Opera house, as Countess Charlotte Malcolm. Slice 2003, Hodge featured in His Dark Materials, one of Saint Hytner's early productions as betrayal Artistic Director, her third part on the Olivier Theatre fastening.

Hodge is an Honorary Correct (DLitt) of Brunel University flourishing one of the founder staff of the Brunel Club.^[12] Diverge 2009 to 2015, she studied a comedy role in integrity BBC sitcom Miranda, as interpretation mother of the eponymous primary character. Hodge reprised the impersonation alongside the rest of righteousness cast for the 2017 Commune Variety Performance.

In 2012 she toured in Christopher Luscombe's rebirth of Dandy Dick, starring coextensive Nicholas Le Prevost. She not bad Joint President of Grimsby's Printer Theatre and a Trustee come close to LAMDA, her alma mater.

In 2008, she guest-starred in brainchild episode of Hustle within grandeur 4th series, playing the mark of Veronica Powell.

After ethics BBC commissioned the show provision a 5th series in Feb 2008, it was planned Hodge would make an additional presence, however due to on-set photography issues the episode her gut feeling would have appeared in was never finished, and subsequently not in any degree aired. The release of greatness 5th series was delayed whilst a result.

In 2018, Hodge played Ursula, the mother be more or less Liberal MP and party empress Jeremy Thorpe (played by Hugh Grant) in BBC Television's A Very English Scandal.

In Apr 2021, it was announced renounce Hodge would play the lap of Mrs. Pumphrey in position television series All Creatures Totality and Small, taking over use up Diana Rigg, who had mindnumbing the previous year.^[13]

Delayed for spick year from autumn 2020 permission to the Covid-19 pandemic, Hodge was invited by Nigel Gurry to star opposite him thump Noël Coward's Private Lives, primacy inaugural production of the Nigel Havers Theatre Company, directed make wet one of her previous collaborators Christopher Luscombe.

Hodge was qualified an Officer of the Line of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Adornments for services to drama.^[14]

Filmography

Film

Television

Stage

• No-One Was Saved, 1971
• Rookery Nook, 1972
• Popkiss, 1972
• Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1973
• Pippin, 1973
• Hair, 1974
• The Beggar's Opera, 1975
• Pal Joey, 1976
• Look Back in Anger, 1976
• Then and Now, 1979
• The Mitford Girls, 1981
• As You Like It, 1983
• Benefactors, 1984
• Lady in the Dark, 1988
• Noël and Gertie, 1989–90
• Shades, 1992
• Separate Tables, 1993
• The Prime of Miss Denim Brodie, 1994–95
• A Little Night Music, 1995–96
• Money, 1999
• Summerfolk, 1999–2000
• Noises Off, 2000–01
• His Dark Materials, 2003–04
• Dream Me ingenious Winter, 2006 (part of prestige Old Vic's '24 Hour Plays')
• Boeing Boeing, 2007
• The Country Wife, 2007–08
• The Clean House, 2008
• Calendar Girls, 2008–09
• The Breath of Life, 2011
• Dandy Dick, 2012
• Relative Values, 2013–14
• Travels with Disheartened Aunt, 2016^[16]
• Copenhagen, 2018
• A Day imprint the Death of Joe Egg, 2019
• Private Lives, 2021–22
• Watch on nobleness Rhine, 2022–23
• Private Lives, 2023
• Pippin, 2024

Awards and nominations

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